and destroyed the barracks and storehouses, together with some merchandize and guns that were not deemed fit to bring away.[1] In the Northumberland Capt. Ross conveyed Napoleon Buonaparte to St. Helena. He afterwards, in 1817, obtained a three years’ appointment in the Ordinary at Portsmouth; from July, 1822; until his attainment of Flag-rank, 10 Jan. 1837, he served as Commissioner of the Navy at Jamaica, Malta, and Plymouth; and from 4 Sept. in the latter year until 1841 he commanded-in-chief in the Pacific with his flag in the President 50. He became a Vice-Admiral 24 April, 1847.
Vice-Admiral Ross was nominated a C.B. 8 Dec. 1815. He married, in 1803, Miss Cockburn, of Kingston, Jamaica, sister-in-law of Admiral Sir Geo. Cockburn, G.C.B. His only son, C. W. De Courcy Ross, died a Commander R.N. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
ROSS. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
Charles Henry Ross entered the Navy, 19 Oct. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Britannia 100, Capt. Chas. Bullen, flag-ship in the Channel of the Earl of Northesk; and, from 26 Nov. following until 12 Aug. 1811, was employed as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and Lieutenant (order and commission dated 21 Feb. and 13 March, 1811), in the Amphion 32, Capts. Sam. Sutton and Wm. Hoste. In the summer of 1805 he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in pursuit of the combined squadrons of France and Spain; in the following Nov. he assisted at the defeat, although supported by the fire of an immense battery, of a division of about 30 Spanish gun-boats, which had come out of Algeciras in the hope of capturing a British convoy; and on 30 July, 1806, he co-operated in the capture, on the coast of Calabria, of the town of Reggio,,and of the important fortress of Cotrone, with all its stores and magazines and upwards of 600 troops. He next, 12 May, 1808, shared in a very spirited engagement of many hours with several heavy batteries in the Bay of Rosas, in an attempt to cut out the French frigate-built 800-ton store-ship Baleine, mounting from 26 to 30 guns, with a crew of 150 men; and on 27 Aug. 1809 he took part in a gallant attack on the strong fort of Cortelazzo, near Trieste, which was stormed and carried by a detachment of 70 officers, seamen, and marines, under the present Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott – occasioning the simultaneous surrender, within sight of an Italian squadron off Venice, of six of the enemy’s gun-boats, and a convoy of merchant-trabaocolos anchored for protection under its walls,[2] Mr. Ross was subsequently, 29 June, 1810, engaged in an affair near the town of Grao, where the gallantry and exertions of the British enabled them to defeat a numerous body of French troops, and to effect the capture and destruction of a large convoy laden with naval stores for the arsenal at Venice.[3] On 13 March, 1811, it was his fortune to be present as Acting-Lieutenant in the celebrated action fought off Lissa; on which occasion a British squadron, carrying in the whole 156 guns and 879 men, completely routed, after a battle of six hours and a loss to the Amphion of 15 killed and 47 wounded, a Franco-Venetian armament whose force amounted to 284 guns and 2655 men. For his conduct in this instance he was confirmed, as above alluded to, by a commission bearing date the day of the achievement. His last appointments were – 21 Nov. 1811 and 23 March, 1814, to the Sophie 18 and Terpsichore 32, Capts. Nicholas Lockyer and Wm. Bowen Mends, both on the North American station; where he continued actively employed until the summer of 1814, when he returned to England and was paid off.
ROSS. (Commander, 1842.)
Charles William De Courcy Ross died early in 1848. He was only son of Vice-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 May, 1825; and embarked, 7 May, 1827, as a Volunteer, on board the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, stationed in the Mediterranean. In 1831 he joined the Trinculo 18, Capt. Sam. Price, attached to the force on the coast of Ireland; and after serving for about a year and a half on the Brazilian and West India stations as Mate in the Dublin 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, and Vernon 50, flag-ship of his uncle Sir Geo. Cockburn, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Dec. 1833. He was subsequently emploved, also in the West Indies, on board the Arachne 18, Capt. Jas. Burney, Wasp 16, Capt. John Sam. Foreman, and Fly 18, Capt. Peter M‘Quhae; and from 3 Nov. 1837 until 1841 he officiated as Flag-Lieutenant, in the President 50, to his father, then Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific. His last promotion took place 7 May,, 1842.
Commander Ross married, 12 Dec. 1837, Mary Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Edw. Maxwell, Esq., R.N. by whom he has left issue.
ROSS. (Lieutenant, 1816. f-p., 33; h-p., 5.)
Charles Wilsone Ross entered the Navy, 4 Jan, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, in which ship and in the Royal Sovereign 100, commanded by the same officer and by Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, he served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate on the West India and Home stations until removed, in Feb. 1814, to the Spencer 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett, attached to the force on the coast of North America. In Aug. 1815 he joined the Romney 50, Capt. John Mackellar, lying at Chatham; and in the ensuing Nov. he was received on board the Salisbury 58, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies; where after he had acted for upwards of five months as Lieutenant in the Sabine and Shark sloops, and Pique 36, he was confirmed, 15 Oct. 1816, into the Rifleman 16, Capt. Houston Stewart. He went back, in the course of the same month, to the Pique, commanded by Capt. Jas. Haldane Tait; and in Jan. 1817, at which period he was again in the Salisbury, he returned home. His appointments have since been – 3 Sept. 1818, for nearly three years, to the Lee 20, Capts. John Pasco and Stewart Blacker, on the Home station – 22 March, 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued as Supernumerary- Lieutenant of the Severn 50, Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye, until 1828 – 3 Oct. 1829, to the Victory 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, guard-ship at Portsmouth – 1 May, 1830, to the St. Vincent 120, Capts. Hyde Parker and Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, employed at first at Portsmouth as flag-ship to Sir Thos. Foley and afterwards in the Mediterranean, where he remained until 1834 – and 10 July, 1835, to the command, which he still retains, of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Ross married, 6 July, 1825, Sophia, daughter of David Richardson, Esq., of Wellclose Square, London. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
ROSS, Kt., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.R.A.S., &c. (Captain, 1834.)
Sir James Clark Ross, born 15 April, 1800, is son of Geo. Ross, Esq., of Chatham Place, London, and Balsarroch, co. Wigton; and nephew of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N., Kt., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 April, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Briseis 10, commanded by his uncle Capt. John Ross, under whom he was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the same vessel and in the Actaeon 16 and Driver 18, in the Baltic, White Sea, and Channel, and on the west coast of Scotland, until Dec. 1817. On 16 Jan. 1818, a few weeks after Capt. Chas. Hope Reid had succeeded to the command of the Driver, he was again placed under the orders of Capt. John Ross as Admiralty-Midshipman on board the Isabella hired sloop; and in the course of the same year he accompanied him in his first expedition for the dis-
